WELA
Windows Event Log Auditor (by Yamato-Security)
chainsaw
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts (by WithSecureLabs)
| WELA | chainsaw | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 14 | |
| 28 | 3,196 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 9.8 | 8.2 | |
| 7 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| PowerShell | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
WELA
Posts with mentions or reviews of WELA.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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chainsaw
Posts with mentions or reviews of chainsaw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.
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Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
There’s already a DFIR log tool named chainsaw: https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
- Agent event queue is flooded. Check the agent configuration
- What's your favorite cybersecurity tool?
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Tools for "static" log analysis
https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw if you're just looking for bad stuff.
- Chainsaw v2.0 Release - Hunt and Search Through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw v2.0.0 - Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw 2.0: Allows users to rapidly search through Windows event logs and hunt for threats using Sigma detection rules.
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EvtxHussar 1.0
Differences between this and Chainsaw? Chainsaw
- IR log Collection/Parsing Recommendations
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AMA : I’m a cybersecurity engineer at Microsoft .
Use Chainsaw for event logs https://github.com/countercept/chainsaw
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WELA and chainsaw you can also consider the following projects:
teler - Real-time HTTP Intrusion Detection
hayabusa - Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
WindowsDFIR - Repository for different Windows DFIR related CMDs, PowerShell CMDlets, etc, plus workshops that I did for different conferences or events.
EnableWindowsLogSettings - Documentation and scripts to properly enable Windows event logs.
RustHound - Active Directory data ingestor for BloodHound Legacy written in Rust. 🦀